Priority General Authorisations in rights-based water use authorisation in South Africa
| cg.contributor.affiliation | International Water Management Institute | |
| cg.contributor.crp | Water, Land and Ecosystems | |
| cg.creator.identifier | Barbara Van Koppen: 0000-0002-7707-8127 | |
| cg.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2014.110 | |
| cg.identifier.wletheme | Land and Water Productivity | |
| cg.issn | 1366-7017 | |
| cg.issn | 1996-9759 | |
| cg.issue | S2 | |
| cg.journal | Water Policy | |
| cg.volume | 16 | |
| dc.contributor.author | van Koppen, Barbara | |
| dc.contributor.author | Schreiner, B. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-03-17T14:40:00Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2015-03-17T14:40:00Z | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/58449 | |
| dc.title | Priority General Authorisations in rights-based water use authorisation in South Africa | en |
| dcterms.abstract | This article unravels the notions of justice in statutory water law in Sub-Saharan Africa in general and South Africa in particular. These laws, which allocate and regulate water resources, are licence (or permit) systems. Three forms of injustices are identified for small-scale water users who typically encompass all poor water users: the reinforcement of the historical injustices by which colonial powers captured ownership of water resources and undermined customary water law; administrative discrimination as a result of governments’ lack of capacity to license the large numbers of small-scale users; and discrimination of the smallest-scale users whose exemption from the obligation to apply for a licence relegates them to a second-class entitlement to water. Based on the texts and implementation experiences of the National Water Act (1998) and the pro-poor prioritisation rules in the National Water Resource Strategy-2 (2013), the authors propose the transformative legal tool of priority General Authorisations for black small-scale users to overcome these injustices. Via this tool all black small-scale users, including the poor, would obtain equal access to minimum quantities of water needed to progressively achieve constitutional rights to water, food, and non-discrimination, while the remaining water resources would be allocated to high-impact users through licences with strict and enforceable conditions. | en |
| dcterms.accessRights | Limited Access | |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation | van Koppen, Barbara; Schreiner, B. 2014. Priority General Authorisations in rights-based water use authorisation in South Africa. Water Policy, 16:59-77. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2014.110 | en |
| dcterms.extent | pp. 59-77 | |
| dcterms.issued | 2014-11-01 | |
| dcterms.language | en | |
| dcterms.license | Copyrighted; all rights reserved | |
| dcterms.publisher | IWA Publishing | |
| dcterms.subject | gender | en |
| dcterms.subject | water use | en |
| dcterms.subject | water resources | en |
| dcterms.subject | water law | en |
| dcterms.subject | water governance | en |
| dcterms.subject | authority | en |
| dcterms.subject | licences | en |
| dcterms.subject | poverty | en |
| dcterms.subject | smallholders | en |
| dcterms.type | Journal Article |